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Film Courage: How does a writer’s age affect what they want to write?
Viki King, Author and Film Consultant: Because we are at every age and stage of our life where we are that age, it’s a specific stage and age each age, it’s remarkable. In fact, that’s what my book now (my autobiography) is about, at every stage of every age. People can look up their own age and be illuminated by what’s going on for them in their life, even though my life is completely different from theirs, there’s always that particular chronology at that time for all of us.
Film Courage: We often look back on our younger years with fondness and maybe melancholy. A lot of people love YA and they want to become an author, a lot of adult readership is in YA. How do we explain wanting to write from that maybe those pre-teen years years or college years where life was we could have gone this direction but we chose this?
Viki: Because everybody in adulthood is from surviving-to-thriving, we’re wanting to change up from the surviving skills from early times. What we do is history repeats itself, so we recreate history in order to fix it, in order to change it, in order to now that we’re grown we want a different result. That’s why everyone wants to go back and reset the choo choo on your track and then now let me go forward in this other way, that’s why they’re doing that.
Film Courage: That’s fascinating. So if someone wants to be a YA writer, that then shows that a lot of stuff is stuck in the high school years?
Viki: Well if they want to be a YA writer, they’re going to be successful because right now it’s a very successful genre.
Film Courage: I’ve read some YA books and I’m loving them. I just kind of wanted to browse [the books]. It turned out I actually wanted to become invested in the story.
Viki: Why did you want to become invested in the story?
Film Courage: One that I’m thinking of is Rainbow Rowell’s book [Fangirl’: A Novel]. The girl goes to college and she’s a fish out of water, she doesn’t really fit in. I think she’s from a working class background and for some reason either she got…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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Best-selling author and film consultant Viki King is a leading advisor to luminaries in the entertainment industry. Known for her warmth, and humor she appears often on CNN, NBC, ABC, BBC, as well as in hundreds of radio interviews. She has quick, insightful answers for people’s everyday dilemmas.
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